Preece

Proper noun

Meaning

Preece (plural Preeces)

A surname.

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Examples

A Smith’s employee called 911 that day to report Preece and another man seemed intoxicated and had been walking through the store with a large knife. Source: Internet

Heaviside was also convinced that Preece was behind the sacking of the editor of The Electrician which brought his long-running series of articles to a halt (until 1891). citation There was a long history of animosity between Preece and Heaviside. Source: Internet

Beginning with tests across the Bristol Channel in 1892, Preece was able to telegraph across gaps of about convert. Source: Internet

Heaviside considered Preece to be mathematically incompetent; an assessment supported by the biographer Paul J. Nahin : "Preece was a powerful government official, enormously ambitious, and in some remarkable ways, an utter blockhead." Source: Internet

In 1899, W. H. Preece delivered a lecture on "Aetheric Telegraphy", stating that the experimental stage in wireless telegraphy had been passed in 1894 and inventors were then entering the commercial stage. Source: Internet

On June 4, 1897, Preece delivered his lecture, "Signalling through Space without Wires". Source: Internet

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